Peace in Our Time

The Nobel peace prize was the brainchild of the same guy who invented TNT. The idea supposedly was that a more powerful explosive would lead to fewer wars. It is rather like the scientists who urged the development of an atomic bomb because the Germans were working on one so we needed to have one as well. I suppose we should remember that their expertise was since not geopolitics. But in the end it probably does make more since than the "Peace Prize".
After all MAD may be madness but at lest to a certain extent it worked (although it is unlikely that this tactic would work with ideologies that delight in their own death as much if not more then their enemy’s).
The "Peace Prize" is really a negotiator prize. Since "peace" in this since is really just a commodity, it can always be achieved, for the right price. If you have negotiated a good price, or in some cases simply willing to pay a high one, then you get the prize. Perhaps next William Shatner will get the award.